Connecticut, the No. 1 overall seed and winners of 71 straight games, is the prohibitive favorite to win its second straight national championship. The Huskies dominated the competition throughout the season, winning their games by an average of almost 35 points.
As the season likely has come to a close for the No. 16 MSU hockey team, two players have big decisions looming. Junior defenseman Jeff Petry and junior forward Corey Tropp might decide to leave school early to join the NHL teams that own their rights.
The MSU wrestling program has produced 19 individual wrestling champions, but only five have gone on to win multiple national championships. Thursday, Franklin Gomez will begin his journey to repeat as champion of the 133-pound class in the same way as he entered last season’s NCAA Championships.
MSU baseball head coach Jake Boss Jr. likes playing Eastern Michigan. His past with the Eagles ups the stakes when his current new team takes on his old one. In a game originally scheduled March 12, the Spartans will travel to Ypsilanti on Wednesday to play Eastern Michigan at 5 p.m.
Not only do circus animals suffer physical abuse, but also emotional abuse. Even if bred in captivity, tigers, bears, elephants and other circus animals are not domestic animals. While in captivity, they have the same urges to perform natural behaviors as their counterparts in the wild. Unfortunately, almost every natural behavior is denied to them.
The day doesn’t have to be used to celebrate the real acts of St. Patrick, or even the mythical ones. Even if it’s just as simple as hoping to catch a little green dude and being rewarded with his pot of gold; that’s better than getting more than adequately tipsy for no reason.
No Child Left Behind was crafted with good intentions but created a lot of difficulties once it was implemented. The plan left behind teachers, forcing them to spend most of their time on reading and math proficiency, especially in primary schools where one teacher taught most of the subjects.
The multimillion dollar Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum came one step closer to reality Tuesday at a ground breaking ceremony that attracted more than 400 people. The museum’s namesake couple, as well as its architect, London-based Zaha Hadid, were among the 14 people who dug shovels into the ground near the museum’s future site, next to Berkey Hall.
After adding gender identity to its discrimination policy, MSU continues to look for ways to increase accessibility to the university’s transgender community. Although it is hard to know the exact number of MSU students who identify as being transgender at MSU, it’s a group that some say is growing.
MSU freshman Sasha Savage will not face charges for her alleged involvement in a November 2009 prank, but remains suspended from MSU, according to her lawyer. She faced felony charges carrying sentences of up to 20 years in prison for her alleged involvement in a firework prank on Nov. 1, 2009.
A man allegedly connected to a sexual assault at MSU in February has been apprehended in Illinois, MSU police said. Montague Stanford, 40, of Naperville, Ill., is awaiting formal charges from the Ingham County Prosecutor’s Office for an alleged sexual assault of a female MSU student on MSU’s campus.
Two MSU students got into an altercation in Case Hall on March 5 that led to an assault, MSU police Sgt. Florene McGlothian-Taylor said. A 19-year-old female MSU student said she and a 19-year-old man from Livonia got into the altercation after the man fell asleep in her dorm room while intoxicated.
A series of revisions to course offerings within the Department of Theatre slated to take effect this fall will allow the department to more effectively use its resources and create more flexibility for students.
The Douglas J Salon of East Lansing, along with other Mid-Michigan branches of Douglas J Salons, eXchanges and Aveda Institutes, helped raise more than $3,200 during February to support the victims of the Haiti earthquake. The salons encouraged guests to make donations at checkout.
State Rep. Mark Meadows, D-East Lansing, wants to change the way lawmakers do business. Meadows recently proposed various ideas to reform state government, including reforms of state legislators’ term limits, slashing business tax credits and lowering the state’s sales tax and expanding it to services.
The Michigan-Grand River Avenue Corridor Study whittled down its list of public transportation options to light rail transit, bus rapid transit and modern street car. The project will attempt to connect the Capitol to Marsh Road on Grand River and Michigan avenues through multimodal transportation, which will include bicycle lanes and pedestrian walkways.
MSU Tower Guard will host its 10th annual 5k Shamrock Run-Walk-Roll on Saturday at Conrad Hall. This year, Tower Guard reached out further to the East Lansing community, involving about 20 local businesses which have donated more than $3,000 in sponsorships.
When Bob Fish and Mary Roszel decided to open a coffee shop in East Lansing 15 years ago, many people wondered if it would be a profitable business endeavor. On Monday, Roszel and Fish proved their doubters wrong by celebrating Biggby Coffee’s 15th anniversary and offering free tall drinks to Biggby E-ward members at any participating store. In addition, a birthday party was held at the original Biggby shop at 270 W. Grand River Ave.
The East Lansing City Council likely will vote whether to approve a site plan that would convert the Lambda Chi Alpha fraternity house, 128 Collingwood Drive, into high-end apartments during its 7:30 p.m.
Members of a new campus group contend construction for the Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum destroyed a small wetland, but MSU officials and a local environmental consulting firm insist it could not be classified as such.